Tag Archives: dark

Stolen Data on sale on the dark web is not a new thing. US defense agencies fare quite poorly when it comes to protecting data from exposure on the dark web. A report from late last year indicated that US defense agencies were more prone to being hacked than any other agency. A recent report by a cybersecurity firm Recorded ... Read More »

The Israeli cyber espionage company NSO Group Technologies has accused a 38-year-old former employee of stealing company secrets. The former worker allegedly tried to sell highly confidential technology on the dark web for tens of millions of dollars. It appears that the ex-employee was motivated by revenge. After the man realized he was about to be fired by NSO, he ... Read More »

Europol has been on the frontline in the fight against dark web crimes. In its bid to acquire all the required forces, Europol recently held a conference at its headquarters and called upon law enforcing agencies from all over Europe to join hands and devise effective means of putting dark web crimes to an end. The conference brought together law ... Read More »

A 46-year-old, Steven Hancock used bitcoin to purchase Ecstasy from the dark web, but will not spend a day behind bars for his offenses. Steven pleaded guilty to all the charges against him but the judged viewed him as a low-risk offender after all the evidence against him was presented. According to the presiding judge at Swindon Crown Court, Steven ... Read More »

According to a press release from United States Attorney Ron Parsons, a South Dakota man laundered thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin and bought numerous packages of MDMA from darknet vendors. The defendant, John Edward Monette, 49, was charged in connection with the recent federal investigation into darknet vendors known as Operation Dark Gold. Homeland Security Investigations, court documents revealed, ... Read More »

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India expressed through its annual report of 2017 the need to monitor the dark web due to its increased use in drug trafficking while using bitcoin as the currency of choice. The report indicated the fact that darknet users have no direct contact with vendors and law enforcement, as the biggest reason more Indians ... Read More »

Over 35 dark web drugs and arms dealers have been arrested in a nation-wide bust by a joint operation between the US Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Secret Service (USSS), Immigration and Customs Enforcementâs Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). This bust was the first nation-wide undercover operation to sweep dark web ... Read More »

A UK man has been jailed for dealing in illegal drugs via the dark web. 28-year-old Tim Kerr, a doctor and his counterpart, a university friend Adrian Tickridge-Day, 27, imported drugs from the dark web and sold them on the streets. Kerr, when not saving lives at a hospital in Newcastle, was busy being a dark web drug trafficker and ... Read More »

Ryan Farace (34) has been charged for masterminding illegal drug sales on the dark web. According to the indictment, Farace operated drug trades on the online black market for five years and successfully delivered many ordered packages through postal services after customers made payment in Bitcoin. He has been charged with money laundering and illegal drug trafficking. According to a ... Read More »

The Australian government provides legal aid to its citizens on trial when the cases take place abroad. The aid is offered through the Serious Overseas Criminal Matters scheme and is seemingly issued regardless of crimes committed. The aid is given to Australians at risk of having to serve a sentence of over 20 years or death penalty cases. Failure to ... Read More »

According to a recent research, the numerous crackdowns by Europol have not had any effect on the dark web as its demand continues to be on the rise. A similar finding was discovered after the shutdown of the Silk Road market in 2013. According to the research, there was an unprecedented rise in dark web users after that shutdown. The ... Read More »

SwitzerlandÂâs office of the Attorney General is investigating the logistics chief of the cantonal police agency of Schwyz for misconduct and violation of the War Material Act, the Tages-Anzeiger reported on Thursday. The Swiss police officer and a logistics manager came under scrutiny after he was linked to an ongoing investigation on dark web weapon trafficking, launched in 2013 in ... Read More »

A joint operation involving the Finnish customs and the Finnish Police has led to the closure of the Sipulikanava website, a Finnish-only dark web forum. The Sipulikanava website was shut down due to charges of online drug smuggling. It was the biggest Finnish dark web marketplace with huge amounts of illegal drugs selling from 2014 to 2017. According to an ... Read More »

According to new research figures released by Plymouth Live, reveals an increase in the number of dark web drug users and traffickers. The amount of dark web drugs recovered by police in Plymouth in the past 12 months is equally on the rise. The figures show that over 1,210 drugs were seized between April 2017 and March 2018, compared to ... Read More »

A North Carolina man who pleaded guilty to manufacturing Xanax pills and then selling them in large batches on the dark web has been handed a six and half years prison sentence. Matthew Lee Yensan, 25, admitted to the following charges against him: possession with the intent to distribute a quantity of alprazolam, distribution of a quantity of alprazolam by ... Read More »